El Nino in 2014?

Posted on March 2, 2014 ·

It looks like El Nino could be on the horizon.

http://www.elnino.noaa.gov

While the pattern causes dry weather in Asia, an El Nino typically creates ideal growing conditions in the U.S. Midwest during the summer, which is when the weather pattern is expected to occur this year, Art Douglas, meteorologist at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, said Feb. 5.

There’s a 75 percent chance that one will occur in late 2014, according to a report in the journal PNAS this month.